1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 6 (UK) 6 x 25 minute episodes 6 x 30 minute episodes Living in a bed-sit and working…
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1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 8 (UK) The first three series’ of Arthur Askey’s Before Your Very Eyes were broadcast on BBC between 1952 and 1955,…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 6 8 (UK) 23 x 30 minute episodes 1 x short special Beggar My Neighbour featured two families; The…
1 9 8 8 (UK) 4 x 50 minute episodes Alan Plater’s final chapter of his Beiderbecke trilogy (which was, in turn, based on his 1981…
1 9 9 2 – 1 9 9 5 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes Ben Stiller and his friends Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, and Bob…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 7 (UK) 1 9 6 1 – 1 9 8 9 (UK) British TV’s saucy comedian with a flair…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 6 (USA) 158 x 30 minute episodes In this spin-off from Soap, Benson the butler was sent by Jessica…
2 0 0 1 – 2 0 0 6 (USA) 104 x 30 minute episodes Stand-up comedian Bernie “Mac” McCullough (Bernie Mac) and his glam workaholic…
1 9 6 8 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Produced and directed by Robin Nash, this six-part BBC1 comedy series was a vehicle for comedienne…
1 9 7 3 – 1 9 7 7 (UK) 26 x 60 minute episodes 26 x 30 minute episodes Beryl Humphries (Carmel McSharry) was the…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 6 9 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes Television’s first attempt to poke fun at the world of politics…
1 9 6 3 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes This ABC comedy starred Hylda Baker and Charles Hawtrey – using their real names – as…
1 9 8 1 – 1 9 8 2 (USA) 22 x 25 minute episodes A spoof cowboy series from ABC that plundered film and TV…
1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 0 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes Cockney wide-boy Alfred Wilcox (Harry H. Corbett) worked as a salesman…
1 9 8 6 (USA) 11 x 30 minute episodes This CBS sitcom revolved around California teenager Brian McGuire (Raphael Sbarge) who loved life in Beverly…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) 30 x 30 minute episodes Goldie Appleby (Betty Hutton) is a former showgirl-turned-manicurist who accepts…
1 9 7 7 – 1 9 7 8 (USA) 14 x 30 minute episodes Another CBS spin-off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, although here the…
1 9 6 4 (UK) 12 x 25 minute episodes Premiering on Thursday, 30 April 1964, this “series of light-hearted enquiries into matters of no importance”…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) 78 x 30 minute episodes “Somebody bawl fo’ Beulah?” While the premise of Beulah – about the…
1 9 6 2 – 1 9 7 1 (USA) 274 x 30 minute episodes One of the most durable television sitcoms and one of the…